Description: Statement that the SOA has formed a task force to address the morbidity tables used for minimum reserves of individual and group health insurance contracts. Issue No. 35.

Description: This article is an overview of preliminary research on HSAs and Account-Based Health Plans. The summary reviews enrollment, health status, premiums and account information. From Health Watch Newsletter, September 2006, Issue No. 53.

Description: Identifying and submitting all appropriate ICD-9 diagnosis codes to CMS will result in a higher risk score for the member and increased payments to Medicare Advantage plans. Milliman's HCC prevalence study illustrates the significant variations in HCC prevalence rates by age/gender, geography, and population type and will assist plans in benchmarking the effectiveness of their own diagnosis code capture efforts.

Description: Results of an SOA survey regarding the expectation for 2015 accruals for 3Rs and cost sharing reduction payments

Description: This article takes a comparative review on Medicare and Private Health Insurance and examines the cost of administration. From Health Watch Newsletter, May 2006, Issue No. 52.

Description: Overview of a benefit rush and its effects on companies.

Description: Pricing Small Group Medical Coverage Renewal Pricing regression to the mean, blending of experience and manual rates, small group reform laws. Issue No. 40.

Description: Editor of the newsletter addresses the readership and talks about the U.S. health care policy and the interactive software tool CHAT, a different approach to benefit design involving trade-offs. Issue No 59

Description: This is the complete January 2012 issue of Health Watch.

Description: This article looks at the Return on Investment for Disease Management and highlights point to consider. From Health Watch Newsletter, May 2006, Issue No. 52.